LIONS IN BRITISH TRENCH

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2714, 8 March 1916, Page 6

LIONS IN BRITISH TRENCH

RAID ON OUTPOST'S LIVE FOOD SUPPLY. • The difficulties of our fighting men in Africa aro illustrated by the following: account of an incident Which occurred at a British post on the Gorman East Africa frontier in November, given by a Renter correspondent:— Lions, with great daring got into a. kraal containing animals for food for the garrison,' whioli was very near to one of the British pickets. The lions succeeded in killing forty sheep and goats. • Next evening a 'gun was set, and at seven o'clock the lions again appeared. The gun was heard to go off, and a -full-grown cub was found dead. Again the gun was charged, although it was not thought likely that the lions would return tliat night. They did come back, however, and this, time got the remainder of their prey in the kraal. On the following night, a trap having been set, a number of officers watched ill the trenches. Three-quar-ters of an hour later a shot rang out-. As nothing happened the watch was kept until after midnight. Next morning ft fino big lioness was found not thirty yards away. One of the officers, it was found, thinking he saw a lion, had fired, and the animal, with a spring, had 'landed on the top of the tiench itself. Luckily this was strong.